In the spring of 1990, a salesman in a New York sporting goods store placed an all-black Ithaca 12-ga. shotgun on the counter in front of me. Shaking his head, he confessed, “I don’t know what it is. I have no idea how it got here. It’s not in our database, and I can’t send it back.” He looked up at me. “You want it?” I had an equally confused expression, because it was not the gun I had ordered weeks earlier. I was there to pick up a Model 87 Deerslayer featuring a blued finish, polished walnut furniture and…

00:00:01 Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast, your guide to the whitetail woods. Presented by First Light, creating proven, versatile hunting apparel for the stand, saddle, or blind. First Light, go farther, stay longer. And now, your host, Mark Kenyon. Welcome to the Wired to Hunt podcast. 00:00:22 Speaker 2: This week on the show, we are running Ohio Big Buck Hunter Mike Rex through our what would you do gauntlet to see how exactly he would handle some of the trickiest deer hunting scenarios I can throw at him. All right, welcome back to the Wired…

00:00:04 Speaker 1: Welcome to the news show. This week we’ve got Randall goes to Austria and tears that place a new one. Meat Eater Live, the Christmas tour is even realer than Santa. Roadless rule updates. Does banning drone use for shark fishing save swimmers from getting mauled by sharks? The wild horse situation is out of control in the American West. The Trump administration is taking steps to fix it. And some people are, of course, pissed about that. Coloradan voters will have a chance to help right the ship in November. An old dead dude got found…

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Taurus USA joined the micro-compact handgun market with its GX4 in 2021, and within the last five years, the company has expanded its GX4 line with a number of options, including optics-ready and XL models. More recently, though, the company added a unique variant to the line in the form of the GX4 Strike Bravo. Watch our “American Rifleman Television: Rifleman Review” segment above to see the details of the Strike Bravo model. “This is still a handgun. But what Taurus has done is rather than have your usual polymer handgun frame that just ends the beavertail and the end…

As of Aug. 24, 2026, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) webpage is again providing defensive-gun-use (DGU) data. The Biden administration, at the behest of gun-control groups that want to shape anti-gun narratives in the media, dropped scientific surveys that indicate how many times armed citizens annually use their guns for self-defense. The Trump administration’s CDC is again publishing this well-established data. The CDC’s “About Firearm Injury and Death” page now says, “The report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence indicates a range of 60,000 to 2.5 million defensive gun uses each year.” The 60,000-2.5 million range is not…

Sitting on the border of Quebec and Vermont, Lake Memphremagog is one of the largest lakes in the Green Mountain State and a true angler’s paradise. With over 20 species of gamefish found in Memphremagog’s glacial waters, anglers flock to its shorelines to catch everything and anything from perch to salmon.However, the recent discovery of a contagious melanoma that’s been discovered among Memphremagog’s brown bullhead population has tainted this fishing oasis.A Cancerous DiscoveryBack in 2011, anglers started reporting “black, tar-like” marks on the faces and bodies of bullhead they regularly caught in Lake Memphremagog, said Vermont Fish and Wildlife (VTFW)…

While the company is mostly known for its metal-frame, hammer-fired DA/SA handguns, Beretta jumped into the striker-fired, polymer-frame pistol market with the APX in 2017, followed in 2022 by the upgraded A1 series in 2022. New for 2026, the company is adding another first to the APX lineup with the first factory ported model. The new Beretta APX A1 Ported has a single barrel port that aligns with seven ports on the slide. The APX A1 Ported carries the features of the A1 family, including its modular serialized stainless-steel chassis, improved ergonomics, interchangeable backstraps, an optics-ready slide that uses adapter…

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Over a decade ago, I worked as a line cook in a really fantastic Indian restaurant for a summer. My job included manning the fryers and salad station, but more importantly I was in charge of everything that was cooked in the giant tandoor oven. Slapping naan bread onto the scorching hot walls while maneuvering around giant, sizzling skewers of meat was a dance that left my arms with plenty of burn scars.Those scars have faded, but the flavors of that kitchen have remained ingrained in me. This is my way of bringing the flavors of the tandoor home—with a…